Loft Orbital
Senior Earth Observation Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Senior
- Discipline
- Aerospace
- Industry
- Aerospace
Spec sheet
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Mission & Program Engineering
Senior Earth Observation Engineer responsible for optical payload performance, calibration, and image-processing pipelines across Loft’s Earth-observation missions; acts as technical authority for payloads and mission performance, collaborating with customers and suppliers to define requirements and deliver imagery products.
Required
- optical payloads
- image quality
- calibration pipelines
- image processing
- payload development and test
- in-orbit calibration
- customer-focused delivery
Preferred
- mission performance
- data processing foundations
- simulation/calibration
- vision-based Earth observation
Benefits
- unspecified
Employer description
Wanna join the adventure?
Are you passionate about optical payloads, image quality, and turning pixels into products customers can actually use? If so, this is the perfect role for you!
Loft flies multiple satellites per year and is building the next generation of Earth observation capability - from payload design through calibration, processing, and delivery - across a growing fleet of spacecraft. We’re looking for a Senior Earth Observation Engineer to serve as the technical authority for optical payloads, image quality, and Earth observation mission performance across Loft.
This role requires expertise in imagery calibration, optical payloads, and image processing pipelines. You’ll work closely with mission teams, customers, and payload suppliers to define performance requirements, drive payload development and test, support in-orbit calibration and commissioning, and ensure Loft can reliably process and deliver imagery to customers.
You’ll help build the data processing and image-quality foundation that turns raw payload data into a sellable product, enabling Loft to simulate, calibrate, and deliver imagery across diverse customer missions and to leverage the AI boom through vision-based Earth observation.
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